Yeah, those leaks about Finn and Poe going off on an unrelated subplot are bloody bs. It’s A. too early for leaks with the filming timeline and B. John and Daisy already confirmed they’d be shooting together, and that will talks that John and Adam were sword training together and that Gleeson said he had been filming with Adam so far, I think it’s safe to say that any leaks of separation are Reylow propaganda.
I just want to congratulate the members of the dogpile – you’ve finally drawn a bona-fide “Patriot” to your ranks! It’s hard to miss it if you check the notes – it’s a bunch of rightwing cartoons + something about how they were warned about fascists like me.
Anyway, good job! They may never have found my lil post of it wasn’t for yall Making Tumblr Great!
One would think having company like that would be their “Are we the baddies?” moment, but I’m guessing it won’t be.
Made a second account on @lj_writes@fandom.ink because I got a case of domain name envy. Trying to justify it telling myself I’ll keep my fandom and other stuff neat and separate. Yes I am lying to myself.
Reysky stans reaction to the leak about Rey fixing Anakin’s old lightsaber display in glaring light why I don’t trust the ones who profess to care about Finn. Because not a single one of the raised any objection to the selfsame leak shoving Finn into a side plot, that the whole plot of IX is supposed to be about building a conflict between Kylo and Rey and that the final battle are between these two as well.
They were all too busy flipping out over the “confirmation” that Rey fixing the lightsaber means JJ is changing her background and making her a Skywalker.
So no, I do not trust reysky stans post TLJ, no matter how much the profess to love Finn. Because they’ll throw him and his character under the bus at the first hint that white girl is special, celebrating all the while.
If that’s the actual plot they can count me out. It sounds boring as shit.
apparently, evangelical cartoonist Jack Chick passed away last night
let us remember him by taking a moment to laugh once again at this classic
It brings me comfort tonight to know this sacrilegious Satanist is burning in eternal torment.
What I take from Chick’s and others’ condemnation af atheism as inherently amoral is that they themselves would do absolutely anything if they didn’t believe there is an all-powerful guy with a big stick standing behind them, and I find that terrifying.
What ways would all suggest changing canon to make it less racist? I’m kinda interested in seeing what steps you’d take and how you’d change certain portrayals or tropes.
Let me know!
I’d have liked to see the existence of Haradrim and Easterling resistance against Sauron. @johnnyclash87
had the idea of Aragorn traveling to Harad to train their brand of
Rangers and also to liaise with them, and Moth pointed out that Aragorn
canonically did travel to Harad where he met both good and bad people (link).
Sauron is likely the effective ruler of their lands, maybe by
supporting cruel warlords to exploit and enslave them. Though many
Haradrim and Easterlings were no doubt cruel and willing fighters for
Sauron, many others would have had no choice. Showing the Haradrim and
Easterling resistance and reluctance would have gone a long way to
countering the racist coding in portraying darker races of humans as
uniformly evil other than Sam’s short moment of sympathetic speculation
and like, some passage tucked deep into one of the Appendices. But of
course dealing fully with these issues would have required portraying
the ultimate evil as a force of colonialist violence against people of
color, which would have been… uncomfortable for an Englishman lmao
Is there any kind of non-shippy fic exploring Rey and Kylo’s Force bond? Because honestly, that whole Force bond is ripe for dramatic exploration (think Ezra Bridger and Darth Maul), but it definitely throws me off any interest in reading it if there’s a mutual romantic feelings element. (I wouldn’t even be that keen on Kylo having one-sided feelings~ for Rey, given the whole “blame her for Snoke’s death and later order her ship to be shot down and also try to kill everybody in the resistance” thing.)
Honestly, the Force bond stuff has a lot of fic potential for not-at-all-romantic Rey and Kylo. Not something I’d want to see in episode IX, but in fic it would be fascinating to explore the idea that Rey tapping into Kylo’s Force-abilities is something that can be affected and even stopped… and that Rey might have to re-learn how to do certain things in the Force for herself once the Force-bond is severed. Or that Kylo could tap into what Rey knows by using that Force-bond, and he attempts to harm the Resistance with what he learns.
People posting fic to AO3 need to learn that the & represents a non-romantic connection. In other words: there are multiple reylo fics using the tag Rey & Kylo Ren that should instead be tagged Rey/Kylo Ren.
Seriously there is not enough genfic about Rey and Kylo, and not enough genfic in general though that’s another (if related) complaint. Her becoming more powerful through the Force Bond is in fact an interesting idea that should have been shown and dealt with in the movie, and I think it also serves as a metaphor for the way people can hesitate to cut off unhealthy ties because they gain something through them–including survival itself. Like maybe Kylo threatens to cut the bond himself when Rey rejects his offer, warning her that she will lose her accelerated learning and will be defeated, giving her a real choice to make and actual suspense. She would in fact start losing, but the ship getting cut in half would save her much like the planet falling apart in TFA saved him. And then there would be other fallout later, Rey has to find harder but ultimately more lasting ways to train, Kylo uses information he gleaned from the Bond as you say. Like, give me actual consequences, choices, and tension. I did like that the idea of Kylo Ren as some poor misunderstood woobie was thoroughly trashed and Rey had one of the better arcs in the movie having to grow beyond her insecurities that he preyed on, but the execution was weak compared to the potential of the idea.
As someone not involved in the development of pillowfort but am a web developer, I think you should lower your expectations, but not for the reason you think.
Pillowfort is a baby. A newborn. A smol bab. If you were here during the early days of Tumblr, think of that.
Pillowfort simply cannot be the immediate solution to your woes. It needs to be nurtured and cared for to become a mature and happy adult.
If you want Pillowfort to work, they’ll need feedback, advice, bug reports, etc. This is a chance to make Pillowfort the Ao3 of Fanfiction.net. It’s not gonna happen overnight, you need to give it time and love and it’ll get there.
If you don’t want to pay money to get into the beta, that’s ok. It will be open to the public soon enough and you won’t have to pay a dime. Their financial model moving forward sounds good (a subscription fee for super extra features), but even an Ao3 model would work swell for them probably.
We’re living in an interesting time on the internet. Governments across the world are cracking down on content and yet community run websites are starting to thrive more and more.
Tumblr once upon a time was what Pillowfort is today, but this time, let’s make sure Pillowfort can stay independent from mega corporations.
yes this
most of the criticism i’ve seen of pf so far ultimately come back to this
is it an alright platform with a good community? yes. does it have a lot of potential? yes. does it have a lot of problems still being worked out? yes. are the staff open and responsive? absolutely. do i recommend it? yes, if you’re willing to live in a house while it’s being built.
but it’s not a ready-made replacement for tumblr. set your expectations accordingly.
This. Why do you think we’re still here, fully knowing how horrendously broken this site is? Because, imperfect and morally fraught as Tumblr is, it works. With an asterisk, yes, but you can use it for its intended functions. That isn’t a state that’s easily reached, and it takes incredible amounts of work and investment in money, time, and caring to get there. Expecting PF to work right out of the box is incredibly unfair and unrealistic. Forget out of the box, it’s nowhere NEAR the box. It’s under assembly. For those willing to be part of the community that loves it and builds it up, it can be a rewarding experience. Those who are looking for an immediately functional and scaleable platform should look elsewhere until PF is ready for primetime.
@bai-xue-lives “dogwhistles” lmaoo. I don’t do dogwhistles, that’s why yall so mad.
Did @bai-xue-lives srsly use a word that denotes racist signaling and use it against a Black woman talking about racism
They sure did! And they erased the fact that I say what I mean to make ME look like I’m using alt-right tactics lol
It wasn’t a dog whistle, it was a bullhorn and they hated it for that reason. Racist speakers use dog whistles because they can’t come out and say outright what they mean, and their audiences are complicit in the charade. Speaker and audience both want some hazy distance from the repugnant reality of what they’re advocating. They’re not in favor of murdering civil rights volunteers, they just believe in states’ rights! They don’t think Black people are drains on the system, they’re just against welfare queens! They don’t think Black and brown people are underachieving dolts who fake their own oppression, they just don’t want affirmative action! And so on and so forth ad infinitum.
Pointing out that Nazis/the alt right and fandom racism are on the same continuum of racist thought is the exact opposite of a dog whistle, it’s smashing the whistle and pushing people’s faces right into the ugliness they were distancing themselves from. You want fandom dog whistles? Ask why Kylo Ren assaulting Rey is a romantic bridal carry but Finn taking Rey’s hand to save her literal life is sexual harassment. Ask why Kylo Ren is called a victim and the male lead while Finn is called a murderer and a bit character. Ask why BS is considered a romantic hero while Finn is treated as harmless comic relief. Ask why shippers keep and keep and KEEP saying BS is the first person to care about Rey. Ask why fans sigh about ultra-powerful ForceBabies and say Disney would be crazy to pass on those moneymaker Reylo kids, because Finnrey babies wouldn’t earn money I guess, or it doesn’t occur to them to even consider her marrying a guy she loves enough to lie down and die with? I wonder why 🤔
Fandom racism is an entire collection of dog whistles and calling them out for what they are is absolutely unforgivable in fandom’s eyes. It always has been.
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